David Bowie 1947-2016: life and career in pictures

David Bowie as Andy Warhol on the set of the 1996 film Basquiat. In 2000,
Bowie, who had written a song about the artists for his 1971 album Hunky
Dory, was asked by NME whether Warhol was easy to get on with, and replied: "Nah,
absolutely impossible. He gave the impression there was nothing going on in
there. I could never tell if he was a very lucky queen who liked bright
colours and struck it lucky, or whether there was a philosophy going on
there. I never really found out. I think it was half-and-half really." In Julian
Schnabel's biopic about postmodern artist Jean-Michel Basquait, critics were
not especially fond of Bowie's Warhol interpretation. Entertainment Weekly's
Owen Gleiberman called the impersonation "a bit rickety (he never stops
sounding like Bowie)."